Abstract Dungeon (beta test)

Abstract Dungeon is a new RPG now in open beta test.

Abstract Dungeon is designed to be super fast and rules light. It emphasizes creative story telling over tactile combat and power gaming. You can use it as a quick pick-up game, introduce friends who are scared of RPG math, or play an ongoing campaign.

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Aether Legacy Preview Game: The Bad Luck Gambit

Discover the steampunk world of Aether Legacy, where airships, humans, mechanical beings all clash in epic battles throughout the land, sea and sky. Where there are no boundaries to what you can do within reason, where the actions you take during battle are only as creative as you can imagine. 

In the preview game for Aether Legacy, your adventure begins as one of AirCaptain Ellis&...   [click here for more]

Albion - free introduction

This is the complete introductory section of Albion. It gives an overview of the setting and the rules basics. Go here to purchase the full book in PDF or in print with a free PDF included.

Celtic fantasy roleplaying in a once and future Britain. The day after tomorrow, the seas rose and society crumbled. The Druid Order rebuilt, drawing on ideas of a...   [click here for more]

Ambition & Avarice

Ambition and Avarice is an action-adventure roleplaying game. A&A provides a rich tapestry of choice for the player while remaining light and fun. The adventuring mechanics are OSR compatible and allow easy integration with a variety of old school campaign material. You can pick up this game, grab an old module, and get playing in a very short amount of time.

The characters are...   [click here for more]

Avatar Record Sheet

Please note that the Avatar record sheet is included at standard resolution in the core rule book Ascendancy – Rogue Marshal.

More than a decade in the making, including five years of extensive gam...   [click here for more]

Azamar the RPG - Core Supplement

This is the Core Rules Supplement to the full game.  Use it to augment, re-organize, and amplify your existing game experience with Azamar now!

Azamar is a massive gaming world full of adventure, danger, and magic! Take a look this original Core Rules and Players Guide book as the quintessential entrance into an expansive world fraught with turmoil. Change ...   [click here for more]

BATTLEMAGE - Main Rules

(Please note: if you have bought the full rules you already own these rules!)

BATTLEMAGE is a fantasy wargame for two or more players. Each person controls a small warband of warriors, each led by a powerful Battlemage. You are fighting for power and glory, but more than that you are fighting for control of the world of Ra'al.

A game of BATTLEMAGE is fought betw...   [click here for more]

BLUEHOLME Prentice Rules

BLUEHOLME™ Prentice Rules is a table top fantasy roleplaying game that emulates the game play of the original basic rule book, popularly known as the Holmes Edition or simply the Blue Book. The rules in this book allow for characters of 1st to 3rd levels, and include everything the referee could possibly need to create and run a campaign in the Underworld: monsters, magic, treasure...   [click here for more]

Burning Wheel Gold: Hub and Spokes

Burning Wheel uses a simple D6 die pool system at its core. Grab a handful of dice equal to your skill or stat. Roll the dice. Any 4s, 5s or 6s that result are considered successes. You need a certain number of successes to pass tests. The system builds on that simple core to create deep, dynamic results. During play, the GM challenges a player's Beliefs. The player overcomes these challenges ...   [click here for more]

Chronicles of Arax - Solo Adventure Game

An adventure game for just one person - YOU!

The world of Arax is a world filled with blood and battle, magic and monsters, slaughter and sorcery. It is a world where the weak are crushed and the strong survive, where those who are bigger and more powerful bully those who are weaker and more vulnerable. It is a worl...   [click here for more]

Chronicles of Skin Rules

Chronicles of Skin is a game of scribbling and storytelling. Using cards and a pencil, you and your friends will tell a story, recording it on paper with doodles and glyphs.

This PDF provides the complete rules of play. It is intended for people who already have the game or who'd like to learn more about it.

YOU WILL STILL NEED...   [click here for more]

Citadel of Madness

   Citadel of Madness is an adventure module for Fantasy Adventurers for Kids and Darker Dungeons.  Three to five adventurers must enter an evil citadel that has risen from the ocean to defeat an anceint evil that has awaken from its eternal slumber to destroy the world. 

This game supplement requires...   [click here for more]

Cogs, Cakes & Swordsticks - Steampunk RPG - Core Rulebook - FREE PREVIEW

THIS IS THE FREE PREVIEW FOR:

Cogs, Cakes and Swordsticks is Lynne Hardy's game of steampunk pulp adventure, designed to be played in the comfort of your favourite tea shop with your friends, and requiring nothing more than your imagination, a pen, napkins and a sugar cube (should a six-sided die not be readily forthcoming). 

Inside you ...   [click here for more]

Critical! - Creative Commons

Can you go from being your regular, everyday pig farmer to the defender of the realm? In Critical! you take on the role of adventurers doing adventurous things against giant adventurous creatures. Use your skills and convince your Bartender that you know how to handle any situation with your “Been Raising Pigs Forever” skill. Use your tru...   [click here for more]

D&D RPG Starter Set "Quickstart" (4e)

The 4th edition of the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS® Roleplaying Game showcases an evolution in gameplay and puts an emphasis on fun. These quick-start rules provide an overview of the game so that you can play the Keep on the Shadowfell adventure.

For the complete experience, including character creation and the full rules of the game, pick up the D&D&re...   [click here for more]

D6 Fantasy

The new D6 System roleplaying game series offers fans of one of the most popular cinematic systems a new way to get their favorite game. Combining the best of over 15 years of D6 System design ? including systems appearing in Men in Black, DC Universe, Hercules & Xena, and the awarding-winning Star Wars roleplaying game ? each D6 System rulebook provides an attribute and skill set tailored ...   [click here for more]

DCS Skirmish Rules

Here are the basics of the DCS game system. Featuring weapons and armor as well as two characters and two monsters.

Everything you need to play a quick skirmish using the DCS system

Decahedron Magazine #1

Decahedron is a magazine designed to support the BareBones Fantasy RPG.  It contains articles written by gamers like you. Originally, this was intended to be a paid-for publication containing material DwD Studios produced, along with some fan-generated content in a profit-sharing model. However, due to the popularity of the game and the ever-growing community, we wanted to continu...   [click here for more]

Delving Deeper Ref Rules v2: The Adventurer's Handbook

Volume I: The Adventurer's Handbook (v2 March 2013)

Be an indomitable fighter and carry a bright sword and steely armor into battle. Be an enigmatic magic-user and bend the very laws of reality to your will. Be a righteous cleric and deliver judgement to the blasphemers.The choice is yours — who wil...   [click here for more]

Delving Deeper Ref Rules v2: The Referee's Guide

(version 2 March 2013)

Volume II: The Referee's GuideYours is the highest calling.While players run individual characters, you run the rest of the world!You design the dungeons, you build the towns and cites, you sow the plots and schemes of squabbling goblins and feuding Kings across the entire world. Herein are guid...   [click here for more]

Dravakor Campaign Primer

This is Dravakor, The Heavy Metal Fantasy Roleplaying Game.

Darkness, Destruction, and lots and lots of Death. All the good things.

They are elite killing machines in service to an evil emperor. They are monsters, terrible and fearsome. The are unwaveringly loyal to their master. They are the dravakor. They are the world...   [click here for more]

Dungeon Raiders

"I'm looking at Dungeon Raiders and I REALLY LIKE IT." -- @koboldstyle, creator of Old School Hack

Yet another retroclone, Dungeon Raiders simplifies Original D&D and early D&D into one straightforward fantasy RPG system. Included are stats, rules, and spells for characters up to level 3, and it'll probably take you a while to get there, tha...   [click here for more]

Eldritch Quick Start Rules

Era Imperium Game Intro

This a sample adventure to introduce players and game masters to the basic mechanics of the Era RPG.

You can get the players handbook for free here

Faith & Demons: The Rising - Quick Start Guide

As if the power vacuum created by Rome’s fall isn’t enough, the survivors are fighting against multiple forces. Religious persecution has reared its head with claims of heresy against those who are just worshiping as they always have. Tribal conflicts threaten to tear asunder tenuous allegiances. The land is suffering from the fall-out of it all making nomadic life more difficul...   [click here for more]